CEDIS History
From its origin as the Software Factory Laboratory to a center with partnerships, projects, and research platforms with visible impact.
The Software Factory Laboratory (lab FSw) is created to connect training, research, and development in Software Engineering at the University of Brasília.
From the outset, the group is positioned as a hands-on R&D environment where students engage with software, processes, and innovation in practice.
As new researchers joined and the group’s scope expanded, the laboratory was renamed the Center for Studies, Development, and Innovation in Software, CEDIS.
The new name signals a broader ambition: turning knowledge into applied research, technological development, and institutional collaboration.
In 2020, CEDIS expanded its social impact agenda with the launch of Software for Good during the 20th University Week at the University of Brasília.
This milestone reinforces a defining trait of the center: using software, multidisciplinary collaboration, and outreach to respond to real societal demands.
By 2024, the repository presents CEDIS as an established center in collaborative projects, especially through DFCris and Canal Ciência, both developed in partnership with IBICT.
In the same cycle, the center gains international visibility: a CEDIS undergraduate fellow presents the team’s work at ICCSA 2024 in Vietnam, and the Canal Ciência project receives the conference’s best paper award.
Beyond national partnerships, the repository also records CEDIS’s connection with VISTA Lab at the University of Évora, in Portugal.
This link expands the center’s international reach and reinforces its ability to engage with external research and innovation networks.
Between 2025 and 2026, CEDIS enters a more visible phase of technological consolidation. Contextus stands out as one of the clearest milestones of this cycle, strengthening the institutional recognition of the center’s technological production.
Across the same period, Evidentia Review reinforces CEDIS’s role in evidence-based research through a platform designed to support the planning, execution, and reporting of systematic reviews with collaboration and traceability.
OctaAnalysis highlights the center’s work in gamification and learning analytics, offering a proprietary digital environment to design, monitor, and analyze educational and collaborative experiences.
Together, Contextus, Evidentia Review, and OctaAnalysis present a mature CEDIS, with proprietary assets in applied intelligence, scientific collaboration, gamification, and advanced research support.